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Sebastian Seung

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Sebastian Seung

@SebastianSeung

@FlyWireNews microns-explorer.org @eye_wire. Read connectomethebook.com @WSJ Top 10 Nonfiction 2012. @PrincetonNeuro @PrincetonCS

Princeton, New Jersey

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Joined March 2010

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Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
Jan 4
Transcend biology. (Podcast with convenient section annotations so you can skip around.)
Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Dec 18, 2025
It's brain versus AI time. Here's our full episode with @SebastianSeung. He's started a new company to reverse engineer the brain and master the intelligence created by nature with the hopes of informing the intelligence we've created with machines. Sebastian has done
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Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
Mar 28, 2020
1/ SAVE LIVES by translating Korean→English! 75 page playbook for @KoreaCDC’s fight against #Covid19. Let’s translate into English by Monday morning. No time to lose! Please share the link. bit.ly/CovidPlaybook
Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
Jun 29, 2020
Starting in July, I’ll be serving as President of @Samsung Research. I look forward to guiding research and development @Samsung, strengthening basic and applied research, and striving for maximum real-world impact.
Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
Mar 19, 2020
1/n Ask yourself...what would FDR do? He would hire a million workers and train them for contact tracing, sanitation, and other public health tasks. Kill two birds with one stone: create jobs and contain the virus.
Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
Oct 9, 2024
🧵on Japan's underrated contributions to neural nets. Shun-ichi Amari @UTokyo_News_en @riken_en is another one of my heroes. His 1972 paper on associative memory models modeled Hebbian plasticity using an outer product weight matrix.
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Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
Oct 9, 2024
Wow. @Google is cleaning up at the Nobels this year. Yesterday's prize recognized the old Google Brain and today's goes to @GoogleDeepMind! The torch has been passed from @BellLabs.
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
Oct 9, 2024
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
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Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
Jun 30, 2023
We're done! A historic milestone for neuroscience brought to you by the @FlyWireNews Consortium. Don't take my word for it. See the glory of the fly brain for yourself at flywire.ai/gallery
Sven Dorkenwald
@sdorkenw
Jun 30, 2023
We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses! Explore the connectome: codex.flywire.ai Reconstruction paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Annotation paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/6
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Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
Oct 8, 2024
Wow. Hopfield model and Boltzmann machine.
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
Oct 8, 2024
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
Oct 2, 2024
A historic milestone for neuroscience! It's been a fantastic journey for the #FlyWire Consortium. This special edition of Nature showcases the power of open science, with nine papers that not only describe the fly connectome, but also make discoveries using it.
FlyWire
@FlyWireNews
Oct 2, 2024
Big news! The fly connectome is featured on the cover of a special edition of Nature. This is all possible thanks to the collaboration of 292 members of The FlyWire Consortium! nature.com/immersive/d428… Check out the thread for an overview of the 9 #flywire papers published today
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Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
May 25, 2025
Universities ranked by research output...look closely. Now that @Harvard has been kneecapped, there will be no U.S. university left in the top ten. Hats off to China. nature.com/nature-index/i…
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Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
Oct 5, 2024
I'm reminded today that the world of science is what I wish the entire world could be: people of different nations, races, creeds, and opinions working together to achieve great things. #sfn2024
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Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
Nov 16, 2023
How are neurons activated by sensory stimuli? For the past century, the only method for addressing this question has been neurophysiology.
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Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
Sep 3, 2020
We’re excited to announce FlyWire, the world’s first online community for whole-brain connectomics. Just click on flywire.ai for instant access! In just a few seconds, you can start browsing through an entire fruit fly brain in electron microscopic glory. 1/
Sebastian Seung
@SebastianSeung
Oct 8, 2024
But is it physics? Hopfield tackled three profound questions about emergence: condensed matter from interactions between elementary particles, the magic of life from interactions between dead molecules, and intelligence/consciousness from interactions between dumb neurons.
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